God Bless America (2011)

God Bless America (2011)

IMDb - 52%

52%

Metacritic - 39%

39%

Rotten Tomatoes - 68%

68%

Roger Ebert - 50%

50%

Summary

God Bless America is a 2011 dark comedy-action film that combines elements of political satire with black humor. The film was written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait, and stars Joel Murray and Tara Lynne Barr. Frank Murdoch (Joel Murray) is a middle-aged insurance salesman living in Syracuse, New York, who is sick with how the United States has fallen into a state of rudeness based on pop culture, talk radio, television, and internet influences. After a boring evening of watching television, Frank contemplates killing his rude and inconsiderate neighbors, whose screaming baby mixed in with his own insomnia and chronic migraine headaches give him a lack of peace in his own home. His ex-wife Alison (Melinda Page Hamilton) has custody of their daughter Ava (Mackenzie Brooke Smith), who has become a spoiled brat. Making matters worse, he is fired from his job at the insurance company and told by his uninterested doctor that he has a terminal brain tumor that is nearly inoperable.